Christine Ohuruogu poses on the podium after winning the women's 400m final at Beijing Olympics. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Christine Ohuruogu, the Olympic 400 metres champion, is scheduled to compete at the Irish Indoor Championships in Belfast on 7-8 February. The 24-year-old Londoner will be the first British Olympic track gold medallist to compete there since the Barcelona 100m winner Linford Christie in 1992.

Ohuruogu, currently training in South Africa, will race over 60m and 200m in the two-day meeting at the Odyssey Arena. Although she is not planning to compete in the European Indoor Championships in Turin in March, Ohuruogu may compete in the trials in Sheffield on 14-15 February and has agreed to race the following weekend at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham.

Ohuruogu's outdoor preparations focus on retaining her world title in Berlin in August and are scheduled to start at the Jamaica International meeting in Kingston on 3 May.

"It's not confirmed but she would like to run there and we're having discussions," said her manager Ricky Simms. "The defence of her world title is the first priority, although she will race on the circuit and will probably include a couple of Golden League meetings. But the main aim is, as in the past two years, to have a specific programme built towards her peaking for Berlin."